What do pregnant women that are vegetarian eat?
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Hip Hugger asked:
I was wondering what you eat if you’re pregnant and a vegetarian. I mean, don’t you need to eat meat to keep both you and the baby healthy? I was watching an old rerun of Friends when Phoebe was pregnant and she’s a vegetarian but she had cravings for meat and ended up eating it anyway. If you’re a pregnant vegetarian wouldn’t you become iron deficient anemic? Or can you just continue to eat vegetables and have some kind of iron supplement?
Barbara
I was wondering what you eat if you’re pregnant and a vegetarian. I mean, don’t you need to eat meat to keep both you and the baby healthy? I was watching an old rerun of Friends when Phoebe was pregnant and she’s a vegetarian but she had cravings for meat and ended up eating it anyway. If you’re a pregnant vegetarian wouldn’t you become iron deficient anemic? Or can you just continue to eat vegetables and have some kind of iron supplement?
Barbara
